One of the most interesting function of Microsoft Outlook is the possibility to link items of Outlook itself (mail, activity, etc., etc.) to conntact item. This function, not used by most part of Outlook users, offer a lot of opportunities to improve the quality of your work.

For example, using the Outlook link option,  it's possile to track e-mail, appointment, note, other contacts byl the activity Tab of contact form.

Another use could be to create a product form from a contact standard form and link any "product" to supplier contact form.

After, using Word VBA Macro with "Link Contact", link documents to your customers

Link Contacts utility is an  Outlook addin but it could be used like a library to develop  macro VBA in Outlook, Word, ecc ecc.

La class furnished  is associa_contatti.outaddin.

There are two metods:

- associa_contatti.associa to run Link procedure from VB

- associa_contatti.elimina to run the Unlink procedure from VB

The Proprieties are:

associa_contatti.objoutlook outlook.application type

associa_contatti.objinsp outlook.inspector type

associa_contatti.invfld boolean type

associa_contatti.FLDCLI  outlook.mapifolder type

A practical example of the use of Link Contacts like library are the  necessary macros to insert Link and Unlink buttons in the Outlook Item:

Sub ass()
   Dim asss As OutAddIn
   Set asss = New OutAddIn
   asss.invfld = False
   Set asss.objOutlook = Application
   Set asss.objInsp = Application.ActiveInspector
   asss.associa
   Set asss = Nothing
End Sub

Sub deass()
   Dim asss As OutAddIn
   Set asss = New OutAddIn
   asss.invfld = False
   Set asss.objOutlook = Application
   Set asss.objInsp = Application.ActiveInspector
   asss.elimina
End Sub

The procedure  to activate these two buttons is thefollowing:

1) In Outlook, click on Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor

2) In Visual Basic Editor click on  Tools>Referals

3) You need to enable Link Contacts library(like in the picture):

4) Insert the code you find in this page in"ThisOutlookSession".

5) Close and save the macro editor.

6) Open an Outlook Item.

7) Right click on the menù bar of the item itself.

8) Choose "Customize".

9) On Comands Tab goto macro and drag the two macros on the item bar.

10) Give to these button the names and theicons you prefer..

Actually i have two project using Link Contacts: one is a CRM procedure and another is a little software to manage Legal Advocate Studios.

Because my work doesn't give me sufficient time, these two project are paused from long time.

Somebody want to continue with me in these two projects??